European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 04, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes . Tuesday january 4,1994 . Theme song i la be suing you new York a if you live in Utah or Indiana relax. But watch your Back in Washington , the worst place in the nation for getting sued according to a Survey by Forbes Magazine. Rhode Island Massachusetts new Mexico and Nevada Are not exactly havens from lawsuits either rank ing second through fifth on the Magazine s list of litigious states. Forbes reports in its Jan. 17 Issue that the greatest concentration of litigious Ness lawsuits stemming from car accidents to Medica  is in the Northeast while the Midwest and Rocky Mountain states have lower Levels. According to the Magazine s ranking of the 50 states and Washington the nation s capital is far and away the worst place for getting sued. Lawyers become involved in 61 percent of Auto accidents in the capital the average malpractice Premium for an orthopaedic surgeon is More than $25,000, and the City paid nearly Survey rates . Capital x. Worst in litigation cases $14 million to Settle liability claims in the last fiscal year. .".-. Other findings include Detroit juries Are six times More generous in their Cash awards to plaintiffs who sue the City than juries in Phoenix the median. Nearly two thirds of car accidents end up involving lawyers in Maryland Massachusetts new Jersey and the District of Columbia. Orthopaedic surgeons in new York state s Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island pay More than $117,000 per year in malpractice premiums compared with $33,000 for doctors in Rural upstate new York. Forbes devised the ranking by averaging such factors As the percentage of automobile accidents in which lawyers get involved the average Cost for one year s malpractice insurance for an orthopaedic surgeon and the number of members of a state s trial lawyers association per 100,000 population. It also looked at How much each state s chief Justice spent to win his last election and the amounts the larg est City in each state spent to Settle lawsuits against it in the last fiscal year. Forbes acknowledged that the ranking was unscientific but said it was probably unprecedented because most states have no Central data base for the number of lawsuits or plaintiffs winnings. Ranking sixth through 10th on the litigation list were Delaware Florida new York new Hampshire and Washington state. Ranking 42nd to 51st As the least litigious were Ore gon Idaho Nebraska Arkansas South Dakota Kan Sas North Dakota Indiana and Utah. In the stars and stripes 10 years ago Jan. 4,1984 a captive . Pilot freed by Syria left for Home on an air Force plane while the Rev. Jesse Jackson who went there seeking his Freedom declared a lot of people deserve credit for the Mission s Success. 20 years ago Jan. 4,1974 president Nixon signed a $73.7 billion defense appropriation Bill accepting without comment a Cut of $3.5 billion from the amount he originally asked con Gress to allocate. 30 years ago Jan. 4,1964 conservative sen. Barry Goldwater promising voters a Choice not an Echo declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. 40 years ago Jan. 4,1954 Secretary of state John Foster Dulles indicated that the soviets apparent willingness to discuss the German and austrian questions at the forthcoming Berlin conference makes the unification of Europe at Long last a  50 years ago Jan. 4,1944 flames raced through Berlin fanned by intermit tent blasts from delayed action bombs dropped by Raf heavy bombers that struck their 10th major blow within 45 Days against Ger Many s capital. World War ii 50 years ago today Jan. 4 1�9�44 getting their tanks into action . Marines push South from the marshy Cape Gloucester beachhead on new Britain. To the Lorth . Navy planes attack Kavi eng new Ireland. Soviet troops capture Belaya Feerko after a bitter four Day Battle for the railway town South of Kiev. British troops move across the Peccia River in Eastern Italy. Source 2194 Days of War w. H. Smith publishers inc. World almanac Book of world War a Bison books corp., 19b1 a College fops Volunteer list by the associated press the University of Wisconsin Madison leads the nation in recruiting new Grad uate to help people in other countries with 351 peace corps volunteers in seven years. That ranking can be attributed to us s reputation for being globally aware and globally Active said Karen Phillips manager of the peace corps regional recruiting office in Minneapolis. Students Are looking More at volunteering As an enhancement of their Ca Reers rather than stifling them she said. Madison is one of the movers and Shak ers of  Don Sauer past president of a group of 180 former peace corps volunteers who live in the Madison area linked us s no. 1 ranking to its Liberal tradition Good recruiters and other influences. It builds on itself said Sauer who volunteered in Afghanistan in 1967 and 1968 As a farm adviser. The Wisconsin tradition has been Strong in favor of the peace corps right from the  Phillips said that Over the same period the University of Minnesota ranks second with 236 volunteers followed by the University of Washington 233 the univer sity of Michigan 218 and the University of California at Santa Barbara 191. The peace corps formed in 1961 by president Kennedy sends volunteers with skills in agriculture education Busi Ness health and other vocations to underdeveloped countries for two year assignments. Each year about 3,500 new volunteers primarily College graduates Are recruited for assignments in 92 countries Phillips said. Budding politician seven year old Andrew Giuliani grins and Waves while his father Rudolph Giuliani addresses a crowd after being sworn in sunday As new York City s 107th mayor. Re publican Giuliani a former Federal prosecutor who cracked two decades of democratic dominance of City Hall promised new yorkers an Era of innovation and revived Confidence. He vowed to crack Down on crime and tackle the City s perennial budget problems. Andrew stood by his father s Side throughout the speech. National archives move to be Long costly Washington a hate mov ing be thankful you re not the National archives. It is carting thousands of boxes and crates of precious historical items from rare civil War photographs to watergate scandal tapes to a $250 million building in suburban College Park my. The move beginning monday will take three years require at least 1,300 truck loads and Cost $6.8 million said Susan Cooper spokeswoman for the National archives and records administration. Much of the 765,934 cubic feet of material will be placed in 2.3 million Small specially designed and cushioned containers so that the contents Are protected from temperature fluctuations and humidity. The items Range from documents so old arid fragile they can t be exposed to sunlight to the cracked Windshield of the limousine president Kennedy sat in when he was assassinated. The Windshield will be wrapped in styrofoam put in a specially designed crate and transported along a special route to avoid potholes the watergate tapes will be transported in armoured cars. The movers will transport 7 million still pictures 11 million charts maps and Aerial photographs 112,274 reels of motion pictures and 200,122 sound and video recordings according to archivists. The still picture collection includes photographs taken by Mathew Brady during the civil War work by Ansel Adams and hundreds of thousands of photographs taken during world War ii. The building in College Park known As archives ii features the most advanced pollution and environmental controls and state of the Art preservation technology. Nine laboratories will allow archivists to use the latest document preservation and storage methods and even develop new ones Cooper said. More than a Quarter million cubic feet of material and documents including the declaration of Independence the . Constitution and the Bill of rights remain at the archives main building in downtown Washington